Danish Pastry Recipe Card

You can’t eat breakfast at night or dinner in the afternoon – but snacks? that you can eat anytime of the day! Along with tea, after school or at a birthday party – snacks are every foodie’s ultimate favourite. Healthy snacking is the best way to satisfy your munchies without the worry of to many added calories.

Prep Time :16-20 minutes

Cook time :26-30 minutes

Serve :4

Level Of Cooking :Moderate

Taste :Sweet

Ingredients for Danish Pastry Recipe

Croissant dough 500 grams

Mixed fruit jam as required

Butter for greasing

Refined flour (maida) for dusting

Milk for brushing

Pineapple jam as required

Sugar icing

Icing sugar 2 tablespoons

Milk 1-1½ tablespoons

Method

Step 1

Preheat oven to 180ºC. Grease a baking tray with some butter and dust some flour.

Step 2

Dust a worktop with some flour, place the dough and roll out to a thin rectangular sheet.Trim the edges and reserve them. Cut the sheet into equal squares.

Step 3

Shape 1 – take a square, brush some water in the center and press the two opposite ends in the center. Place it on a greased baking tray.

Step 4

Shape 2 – take another square, diagonally cut the ends midway, brush some water in the center, press in 4 sides in the center and create a dent in the center. Place it on a greased baking tray.

Step 5

Shape 3 – take another square, fold the opposite side, make 2 cuts, open the sheet, brush some water in the center and fold the edges over-lapping each other.

Step 6

Shape 4 – take a trimmed edge, twist it and roll it inside.

Step 7

Shape 5 – take a square, brush some water over and fold in all the edges.

Step 8

Shape 6 – take a square, diagonally cut the ends midway, fold the cut edges on the opposite direction. Slit the open sides.

Step 9

Place the prepared pastries on a greased baking tray, cover with damp muslin cloth and set aside for 5-7 minutes.

Step 10

Brush some milk on top. Place the baking tray in preheated oven and bake for 12-15 minutes.

Step 11

Fill the center of baked Danish pastries with pineapple jam and mixed fruit jam. Place back the baking tray in preheated oven and bake for 1 minute.

Step 12

To prepare sugar icing, take icing sugar in a bowl. Add milk and whisk well. Fill it in a piping bag and pipe it out on top of some Danish pastries.

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